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Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a controversial therapy used to treat certain mental illnesses such as major depressive disorder, schizophrenia, depressed bipolar disorder, manic excitement, and catatonia. [1] These disorders are difficult to live with and often very difficult to treat, leaving individuals suffering for long periods of time.
David John Impastato (January 8, 1903 – February 28, 1986) was an American neuropsychiatrist who pioneered the use of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in the United States. A treatment for mental illness initially called "electroshock," ECT was developed in 1937 by Dr. Ugo Cerletti and Lucio Bini, working in Rome.
ECT is widely used worldwide in the treatment of schizophrenia, but in North America and Western Europe it is invariably used only in treatment resistant schizophrenia when symptoms show little response to antipsychotics; there is comprehensive research evidence for such practice. [55]
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Winwick Hospital, Electroconvulsive therapy, 1957 (14466087218) Electroconvulsive Therapy or ECT for short is a medical treatment that involves sending electrical currents through the brain. [30] ECT was created by Italian neurologists Ugo Cerletti and Lucio Bini in 1938. Their invention quickly spread to North America and was a common practice ...
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). ETC, or shock therapy, is considered effective for the most treatment-resistant symptoms of bipolar, like life-threatening mania and psychosis. Transcranial ...
Lothar Kalinowsky (December 28, 1899, in Berlin – June 28, 1992, in New York) was an American psychiatrist best known for advocating electroconvulsive therapy. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He contributed to the second edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders .